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Now, you can imagine how the CIA might try to get its hands on that oil.

The CIA might tell the people of Cuba, through various CIA controlled media outlets:

"Oil is down in price and so Cuba cannot survive.

"Cuba had better join up with the USA which has a very successful economy and no debts."

"We're interested in Iraq's oil" - British outside Baghdad 1941

Scotland has lots of oil.

"The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told. Experts believe between 25 and 30 billion barrels could still be recovered over the next 40 years." (BBC - Oil reserves 'will last decades')

You can imagine the lies that might come from the security services:

"Scotland needs England, which has a successful economy and no debts."

The truth is that the UK has the biggest budget deficit of any major economy in the world.

The Sunday Times, 19 October 2008, claims "A slump in oil prices means an independent Scotland could expect to face a budget deficit of £800m...

"Five months ago when the price of oil soared to $120 (£70) a barrel, Grant Thornton, the leading city accountancy firm, calculated that Scotland would have a budget surplus of £4.4 billion, making it one of the wealthiest small countries in the world.

"Using the Grant Thornton model, a new analysis by The Sunday Times, based on the price of oil falling to about $75 a barrel last week, found Scotland would be in the red."

We don't think many people will be conned by the Sunday Times when it fails to mention that an independent Scotland would be MUCH better off than poor old England.

Cuba is very much wealthier than Haiti which the USA tries to keep as a sort of colony.

Cuba is very much safer than Jamaica which has its drugs gangs.

"Compared to neighboring Haiti, the favelas of Brazil or even post-Katrina New Orleans, for that matter, Cuba is Switzerland...

"I don't compare Cuba with Sweden, France, Lichtenstein or Canada. I compare it with Jamaica, Brazil and... Mississippi. It comes off quite well in comparison with other territories in the 'arc of slavery'". - Fidel CastroDavid Seaton's News Links

"An international team led by Mathis Wackernagel of the Global Footprint Network looked at how the living conditions and ecological footprints of 93 nations have changed in the last 30 years.

"They used the ecological footprint (EF) index, a tool devised in 1993 by Wackernagel and William Rees, his PhD supervisor at the University of British Columbia, Canada. EF quantifies the area of land required to provide the infrastructure used by a person or a nation, the food and goods they consume, and to reabsorb the waste they produce, using available technology."